II. ii. 130 ff. Most modern editors have rear¬

ranged the following speeches, giving to Poins the reading of Falstaff’s letter to Hal. The Quarto and Folio arrangement, followed with one exception (cf. Appendix C) in this text, seems more natural. In lines 109, 110 Bardolph evidently gives the letter to the Prince, not to Poins. In line 119 the Prince shows the letter to Poins, but does not necessarily give it to him.